Dr. Seuss in the firing line.
Accusing cultural icons of inappropriate imagery only serves the interests of those who wish to erase culture. Millions and millions of children acculturated into Western Society by a literary diet that includes Dr. Suess children's books have not become racists. We could argue the effect of open libraries and debate has been really beneficial to all people of colour. The Western intellectual tradition has formulated a society fully accepting of the 'other', and nurtured an environment that is perhaps too supportive of political nonsense and gobbledegook. The latest accusations of the culturally inappropriate imagery in some Dr. Seuss books made by the woke intelligentsia is tantamount to nonsense. This claim is made without proof and does not attempt to establish causality. It can only be bunk. Yet it is feverishly supported only by those only too eager to seem on the right side of the narrative. The t...